Arnold Schwarzenegger says he would've run for president in the 2016 election if he were eligible

Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly wishes he would have been able
to run for president this year.

"If I'd been born in America, I would've run," Schwarzenegger,
who is ineligible to be US president because he was born in
Austria, told Adweek in a new cover interview. "Because
now? This was a very good time to get in the race."

After
the leaking of the 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape in which
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was heard bragging
about groping women, Schwarzenegger announced on Twitter to his
nearly 4 million followers that he would not be voting for the
real-estate mogul.

"For the first time since I became a citizen in 1983, I will not
vote for the Republican candidate for president," he wrote.

Adweek suggested Schwarzenegger might have been similarly
successful as Trump at marketing himself in a presidential race.
As California governor, Schwarzenegger was known to use stunts
and gimmicks to get people's attention — something he learned as
a young man in the 1960s.

"I realized early on in bodybuilding that you have to be able to
sell yourself, your ideas, your position to the public," he said.
"You have to set yourself apart, whether it's policy or movies.
How do you make them remember you?"

Fiscally conservative and socially liberal, Schwarzenegger would
certainly have rocked the boat if he were allowed to run in this
race.